I've recently shifted onto this diet (cut off some ancillary things) in the hopes of having a calorie deficit of about 500 calories per day. I workout for about an hour six times a week as it stands (though I will be cutting that down as it seems to be overtraining)

What needs work with this?

Note: I am at University so there is only so much I can vary my meal schedule.

Breakfast:

2 "scoops" of egg white (probably 1.5 Cups) in an omelette with Vegetables and "a little" american cheese.

Try to add more protein to the diet, what is recommended by most is 1g per # of LEAN body weight. Try splitting up into smaller portions and more meals through out the day. Try to have 5-6 meals instead of the old breakfast lunch dinner. For one of those meals supplement in some whey protein. Try yogurt, oatmeal, I don't see any fruits, I noticed lots of carbs that would keep you from losing weight, nuts as a snack and try to get wheat pasta.

That is a bunch of crap, you have to change your meal plan to a different one then. Not unless you meant...

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Note: I can't eat 5-6 meals a day because my scheduling with school won't allow me to eat that many meals

Then there could be a problem but still you should be able to sneak in a handful of nuts here and there. Also can you drink anything in your classes, because if you can you can mix up some whey protein in a bottle and drink it use that as a meal.

People get caught up in the "eat 5-6 times a day" thing. They do it now, just not thinking about it. A snickers bar is a meal, just a very bad one. Like ironmaiden said, a handful of nuts or a protein drink is a meal. The trick is to plan your snacks. Make it something you can carry in your backpack and eat between classes. Make it healthy with protein, good fats and slow carbs. It doesn't have to be elaborate or very large.

I mix 100% unflavored whey protein with water all the time. Mix it in a PET bottle, leave it in the fridge until it gets cold. I the flavored stuff tastes weird in water, it's formulated to go in juice or milk. The unflavored stuff just tastes sort of like really weak milk. I often bring one of them for a snack (500ml of water, 1 scoop of whey at 15g protein, and a handful of nuts for some fats and carbs).

But yeah, chocolate whey powder or whatever in water sucks. But snacks are easy to make. Think "trail mix." Nuts, dried fruit. Skip the usual chocolate chips and sugared dried fruit, get the plain stuff. Some bars are good, depending on your diet. Check the ingredients...some are like candy bars (a few grams of protein and a pile of sugars isn't a "protein bar" - a snickers at least tastes much better!)

In general all protein wheys will work, read the labels all of them should say mix with milk or water. Get a shaker, it will make it much easier to mix the clumps of protein. Flavors...if you can handle the taste then go for it, or try and find flavorless whey that pdellorto mentioned.

Your diet, have a 8-10 oz peice of chicken and try to add more variety in there. Try the things I mentioned in my first post and what other have posted. Also go eay on the carbs to since alot of your evergy will come from the fat thats in the beef, chicken that your eating.

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